Dave Sutton

Founder and Managing Partner, TopRight, LLC

Dave Sutton successfully combines the science of an engineer with the art of a marketer and has led numerous business strategy, marketing strategy and transformation engagements for Global 2000 companies and government agencies around the world. He has worked with leading brands across many industries and categories including ALCOA, BLOCKBUSTER, COCA-COLA, CONAGRA, GE CAPITAL, GEORGIA-PACIFIC, ING, INTUIT, JP MORGAN CHASE, KIMBERLY-CLARK, MCDONALDS, MILLER, SHELL/TEXACO, TOSHIBA and VODAFONE. Dave Sutton is a leading authority today on how to plug 21st-century strategic marketing techniques and enabling technology into the modern business to drive organic growth. He is the founder of Marketing Scientists, LLC a strategic marketing advisory group to Global 2000 companies and he is the co-author of Enterprise Marketing Management: The New Science of Marketing -- the ground-breaking book considered to be the definitive statement of a new business discipline designed to create sustained, profitable, organic growth. He is the former CEO and President of Inforte Corporation, a publicly–traded sales and marketing technology consulting business. He is also the former CEO of the renowned Zyman Group where he established himself as a pioneer in the field of Enterprise Marketing Management working along side one of the world’s pre-eminent marketing practitioners, Sergio Zyman, the former Chief Marketing Officer of The Coca-Cola Company. Sutton combines an unparalleled blend of real-world branding and marketing knowledge with hands-on experience in business reengineering and enterprise information system implementation. His preeminence in the field of Enterprise Marketing Management marks the culmination of a career-long involvement with some of the most important developments in contemporary business strategy – having started his career with Booz-Allen and Hamilton, worked at CSC Index with the likes of Jim Champy and Michael Hammer (Reengineering the Corporation), Fred Wiersema and Michael Treacy (The Discipline of Market Leaders) and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School (“Strategy and the Internet” - HBR).